Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Chemistry & Materials
8 pending office actions • 1 client • 8 examiners • 7 art units • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
MBHB - Massachusetts Institute of Technology has handled 106 career applications, primarily in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate pct of 71.05 for these filings. Prosecution typically involves an avg office actions per allowance of 4.07.
There are 6 pending office actions currently under management for this client. These active matters are concentrated in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals sector. The 106 career applications demonstrate the firm's experience in handling academic and research-based patent portfolios.
The resolved allowance rate pct of 71.05 reflects the nature of Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals prosecution. An avg office actions per allowance of 4.07 indicates the level of interaction with the USPTO. The 6 pending office actions represent its ongoing commitment to securing patent rights for MIT.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (38%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (62%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1 | 57.9% | +4.8% |
| MARTINEZ, TARA L | 1 | 62.6% | +65.4% |
| FAN, WEIHUA | 1 | 83.4% | +12.6% |
| DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1 | 33.3% | +41.6% |
| MYERS, CARLA J | 1 | 49.3% | +46.1% |
| ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1 | 66.8% | +17.6% |
| JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 1 | 15.9% | +63.6% |
| REDDEN, KAREN M | 1 | 88.4% | -21.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690033 | A MICROBIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT AND DEGRADE ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES | FAN, WEIHUA | 8d overdue |
| 16865684 | NEXT GENERATION OF LIGHT-EMITTING PLANT LONGER DURATION AND BRIGHTER | REDDEN, KAREN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17907603 | PRECISION DELIVERY OF MULTI-SCALE PAYLOADS TO TISSUE-SPECIFIC TARGETS IN PLANTS | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 30d |
| 17978010 | Facile Synthesis of Aluminum Salts Using Activated Aluminum Precursor | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 57d |
| 18836731 | Impermeable 2D Polymer | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | — |
| 18770880 | HEME-BINDING SMALL PEPTIDE | MARTINEZ, TARA L | — |
| 18476900 | Protection of Next-Generation Probiotics during Processing | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | — |
| 18343768 | Structured Nucleic Acid Templated Architectures | MYERS, CARLA J | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18690033 | A MICROBIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT AND DEGRADE ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES | FAN, WEIHUA | 8d overdue |
| 17907603 | PRECISION DELIVERY OF MULTI-SCALE PAYLOADS TO TISSUE-SPECIFIC TARGETS IN PLANTS | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 30d |
| 17978010 | Facile Synthesis of Aluminum Salts Using Activated Aluminum Precursor | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 57d |
| 18770880 | HEME-BINDING SMALL PEPTIDE | MARTINEZ, TARA L | — |
| 18476900 | Protection of Next-Generation Probiotics during Processing | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | — |
| 18343768 | Structured Nucleic Acid Templated Architectures | MYERS, CARLA J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| MIT | 8 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1781 | 1 |
| 1663 | 1 |
| 1657 | 1 |
| 1682 | 1 |
| 1732 | 1 |
| 1613 | 1 |
| 1661 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18836731 | Impermeable 2D Polymer | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | GOLDEN, CHINESSA T | 1781 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18770880 | HEME-BINDING SMALL PEPTIDE | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | MARTINEZ, TARA L | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 | |
| 18690033 | A MICROBIAL ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY TO DETECT AND DEGRADE ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDES | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | FAN, WEIHUA | 1663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
| 18476900 | Protection of Next-Generation Probiotics during Processing | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | DURYEE, ALEXANDER MARSH | 1657 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18343768 | Structured Nucleic Acid Templated Architectures | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | MYERS, CARLA J | 1682 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 17978010 | Facile Synthesis of Aluminum Salts Using Activated Aluminum Precursor | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | ZHANG, KELING NMN | 1732 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17907603 | PRECISION DELIVERY OF MULTI-SCALE PAYLOADS TO TISSUE-SPECIFIC TARGETS IN PLANTS | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | JANOSKO, CHASITY PAIGE | 1613 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 16865684 | NEXT GENERATION OF LIGHT-EMITTING PLANT LONGER DURATION AND BRIGHTER | Massachusetts Institute Of Technology | REDDEN, KAREN M | 1661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 04, 2020 |
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